COUSINS’ CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 7, 15 February 1908, Page 47

COUSINS’ CORRESPONDENCE.

Dear Cousin Kate,—l am so sorry I have not answered your letter yet. I was so pleased to see my letter in the paper. Dear Cousin Kate, I think that would be a nice name for my kingfisher, but he is dead. I hope you had a merry Christmas. I did. Cousin Kate, I sent j ou an envelope -w'Hh my address and a stamp when I wrote to you, for a badge. Will you please send me a bins badge? We are going to the bush to l morrow to camp; we live in the country. Thank you very much for the good wishes. My pony is getting so fat that she can hardly move. I have another little lamb called' Nancie. It is such a hot'day; is it with you? I; think I must close now. Yours" truly, Cousin BERYL. [Dear Cousin -Beryl,—-It seems such a long time since your last letter, but 1 expect you have been e»joying your holidays so much that you have not had time to write before. What a pity it was that your kingfisher died. 1 have always heard that they are very hard to rear, because they are such delicate birds. I had a very nice Christmas indeed, thank you, and I am glad you had the same. I’m afraid your stamped and addressed envelope must have gone astray, for I have never seen it, but if, when you write next time, you enclose a separate slip of paper with your full name and address on it; I will post you a blue badge immediately. I’m afraid your pony will not be much use to you if he is too fat to move, will lie? You will have to give him a lot of exercise, so as to make him a little thinner — Cousin Kate.] 4- 4? 4 1 Dearest Cousin Kate, —I have already seen my letter iii- the “Graphic.” Every time the “Graphic” comes I open it at the post office, or else on my way home, and have a glanCf at the “Cousins’ Page” and at “Buster Brown.” I have just returned from a week's holiday. J went over to Tokaanu and stayed with an old friend. I had a very good trip. 1 do not like Tokaanu to live in, but it is alright to spend' a week's holiday in. I saw Cousin Olive. She came down the wharf to see .pile off home last Sunday. ~ Good-bye. ’ Love from all to all. — Cousin TAI. P.S.—A Maori child was drowned last week in the batik at- Tokaanu.—3CyP. -[Dear Cousin «Tai,—You must indeed take a great interest in the Cousins’ Page if you i-nrrmit wait until you get home to read it: and I like you to be so keen about it, and ! wish some of the other cousifis' wduld write as regularly. You don't tell tine half enough abou I you holiday trip to Tokaanu. I’m sort if I'd been to an interesting place like that for a week I should have been able to tell you heaps about it. 1 haven't heard friom Cousin Olive for quite a long time. Did you remind her that there was a Cousin Kate in Auck*

land, who likes to hear from her young “Graphic” relatives sometimes? How did it happen that a child could be drowned in the baths? Don’t they have a proper attendant there? I never saw anything about it in the papers. —Cousin Kate.]